Adding Thin Client to AD

[mattKnight]

Is it possible to add a Wyse Winterm to an Active directory rganisational Unit? (Windows 2003)
I wish to apply different policies to different groups of terminals.


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Matt
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[mattKnight]

Ok,

I guess by the lack of answers that this isn't possible, or that the question isn't sufficiently clear.
I have a terminal services network that need to serve multiple classrooms. All the classrooms are kitted with Wyse Winterm 1200LE terminals. DHCP and DNS are running and working Ok (DNS forward and reverse)

I use GP to redirect start menu's as appropriate to the users' requirements ( on security group membership).

Each classroom will have different applications, which shouldn't be accessed by the user when in the other classroom. If I could add each terminal to an AD organisational Unit, my task would be easy. I have tried, but the policy doesn't get applied as it should.

Does any one have a suggestion of
1) how to get AD to recognise a winterm 1200LE in an OU
or
2) how to differentiate between which terminal a user is using. I suspect that this is a WMI filter, but I am missing the vital step to make the concept wmi filter below work

select * from win32_computerSystem where name like "Class1-term%"

and apply correctly to a GPO.

Any ideas , clues or responses?

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[ADB100]

I don't think you can make a Thin Client a Domain Member - Only Windows NT, 2000, XP (not XP Home) and Windows 2003 can be members of Domains.
How about 2 Terminal Servers?

Andy

 

[mattKnight]

I don't think you can make a Thin Client a Domain Member

When you put it like that its obvious! Must have been having a failure.

2 servers is one solution, but will make further scaling a pain.

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[ascotta]

Hi Matt,

I have put TS(Citrix) into a school environment and used Wyse (I think) tho it doesn't really matter.

I don't think there is an out of the box solution for what you want to do. For this school we just publish a desktop and all the relevant apps appear. The children seem to be able to handle it.

Anyway,I am sure there would be a way to achieve this by scripting against the timetable, be a bit of work but I am sure it could be done.



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[mattKnight]

Scott,

The timetable is irrelevant...

Class1 always has a different setup to Class 2, witha different set of applications. For licencing reasons we need to keep them seperate.



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Matt
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